Episode 68 Emergency Management of Sickle Cell Disease
A recent needs assessment completed in Toronto found that Emergency providers are undereducated when it comes to the Emergency Management of Sickle Cell Disease. This became brutally apparent to me pe...
18 Aug 20151h 1min
Best Case Ever 38 Sickle Cell Acute Chest Syndrome
Sickle Cell Acute Chest Syndrome remains the leading cause of death in patients suffering from Sickle Cell Disease. In his Best Case Ever, Dr. Richard Ward, a hematologist with a special interest in S...
11 Aug 20156min
Journal Jam 4 – Low Dose Ketamine Analgesia
You’d think ketamine was in the ED drinking water! Not only has this NMDA receptor antagonist been used effectively for procedural sedation and rapid sequence intubation, but also, for delayed sequenc...
31 Juli 201538min
Episode 67 Pediatric Pain Management
Pain is the most common reason for seeking health care. It accounts for 80% of ED visits. The WHO has declared that “optimal pain treatment is a human right”. As has been shown in multiple ED-based Pe...
7 Juli 20151h 6min
Best Case Ever 37 Neonatal Lazy Feeder
On this EM Cases Best Case Ever Dr. Anthony Crocco, the Head and the Division Head of Pediatric EM at McMaster University and Medical Director of Pediatric Emergency Medicine at Hamilton Health Scien...
16 Juni 20158min
Episode 66 Backboard and Collar Nightmares from Emergency Medicine Update Conference
In the first of our series on Highlights from North York General's Emergency Medicine Update Conference, Dr. Kylie Boothdiscusses Backboard and Collar Nightmares. The idea that backboards and c-spine ...
9 Juni 201522min
Best Case Ever 36 Tracheo-innominate Fistula
In this Best Case Ever with Dr. Scott Weingart, the brains behind EMcrit.org, we hear the devastating story of a tracheostomy gone bad. Dr. Weingart shares with us what he has learned about how to man...
2 Juni 201514min
Episode 65 – IV Iron for Anemia in Emergency Medicine
For years we’ve been transfusing red cells in the ED to patients who don’t actually need them. A study looking at trends in transfusion practice in the ED found that about 1/3 of transfusions given we...
27 Maj 20151h 6min
